Vigil // 4min // Drama // 2017 // US

Writer/Director: Chris King

A young woman lies awake, thinking about what could have been. A short, powerful tribute to our fallen and their families, inspired by a true story.

Empty View // 18:06min // Animation // 2017 // Iran

Director: Ali Zare Ghanatnowi

Mother keeps a lookout for her son to return home from war. She knits him a pair of gloves remembering how her son rubbed his cold hands together on the wintry morning he left. The war goes on. Mother waits.

TransMilitary // 93min // Documentary // 2018 // US

Directors: Gabe Silverman and Fiona Dawson
Writers: Jamie Coughlin and Gabriel Silverman

TransMilitary chronicles the lives of four individuals (Senior Airman Logan Ireland, Corporal Laila Villanueva, Captain Jennifer Peace and First Lieutenant El Cook) defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own.

All The WInters I Haven’t Seen //  17min // Animation // 2015 // Iran

Directors: Omid Koshnazar Cast: Stella Ulm, Max Jelbart, Rowan Kennett

In New York City, a woman in the first trimester of pregnancy discovers through a long series of tests that there is a high likelihood her child will be born with severe physical defects. It turns out that she had been exposed to chemical weapons.

Homeward Bound // 8min // 2016 // Australia

Director: Miles Gibson

Based on a true story, in October of 1917 a young soldier becomes trapped in the notoriously treacherous mud of the Battle of Passchendaele. As he attempts to escape his tragic fate, the young soldier relives moments from his short life in a vain attempt to reforge the choices that had bought him there.

Miro // 23min // Drama // 2016 // Australia

Directors: Victoria Wharfe McIntye

When Miro returns home at the end of World War II he finds his land taken, his people gone, his daughter stolen and his service record treated with contempt

Screening of Silence is the Accomplice // Documentary // 2017 // Australia

Director: Lieutenant General Angus John Campbell

The stories of four very brave serving Army members dealings with family and domestic violence.

The film tells the stories of four very brave serving Army members with family and domestic violence.

That’s Mine // 6:15min // Animation // 2015 // Iran

Director: Maryam Kashkoolinia

Left in the bush in a war long ago, a landmine awaits its victim with fatal patience. We see village life, workers in the fields, children playing games … all from the perspective of the landmine.

Worlds Apart // 17min // Sci fi // 2017 // Australia

Writer/Director: Timothy Wade

A World War Two English soldier wakes from a coma to find a mysterious old man sharing his hospital room.

The Belief // 2min // Animation // 2016 // Iran

Director: Amir Vahedi

The enemy attacks the country and war begins. An invisible man puts on a pair of soldiers’ boots. The boots prepare to fight  the enemy, but when they see fragments of other boots in the battlefield, they refuse to go forward.

After The War // 14min // Drama // 2017  // Russia

Director: Georgij Davidov

The story of two soldiers fighting on opposing sides. They are destined to come face to face and feel crime and remorse, despair and tears. They come to the realisation that the war is ruthless and senseless and decide to leave it together.

War Ball // 1:40min // Animation // 2013 // Iran

Director: Saeed Madadi

A calm violin player, becomes a warrior, just because of a little ball hits him.

The Passer // 11min // Drama // 2016 // Iran

Director: Pouria Pishvaei
Writer: Omid Shams

A squad of soldiers under enemy fire come to a dead end. With no way back, they need to make a tough decision to be released at the edge of death.

The After War // 11:39min // Drama // 2016 // USA

Director: Giorgio Litt
Cast: Nikki Deloach, Jentzen Ramirez, James Devoti

The wife of a mentally-ill veteran and her son scrape by in an abandoned RV park, but they can’t escape her worst fear: the return of her husband.

Her Unlikely Kin // 15min // Drama // 2015 // USA

Director: Kenneth Raimondi

Sarah Rassi is running out of options. She needs a bone marrow transplant and her only match on the registry is troubled war veteran, Peyton Sinclair. Can Peyton overcome his own battles with PTSD to step up and save Sarah’s life?

Kookaburras // 16min // Documentary // 2017 // Australia

Director: David Jenkins

This short follows the commissioning and making of a fused glass window, by Canberra glass artist Ruth Oliphant, to memorialise women who have been widowed by war. Four generations of Australian women speak about their experiences.

It Would Piss Me Off to Die So Young // 16:17min // Animation // 2016 //  Portugal

Writer/Director: Filipe Abranches

Several soldiers, hidden behind masks, march off to war. This impressively animated story takes us on a battlefield journey to inevitable catastrophe. It is the First World War and a Portuguese soldier, wearing a gas mask, hides from the abstract fog. As he inhales mustard gas, symbolic visions appear before him in a claustrophobic series of events.

And We Were Young // 75min // Animation // 2015 // USA

Writer/Director: Andy Smetanka

A stop-motion, silhouette-animation oral history of American soldiers, ‘Doughboys,’ in the last months of the Great War. A brutal, hauntingly beautiful, and thoroughly original vision of America’s war, narrated entirely in the words of the ones who were there.

La Folle Histoire de Max et Léon // 98min // Comedy // 2016  // France & Belgium

Writer/Director: Jonathan Barré
Writers: Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais

Max and Léon’s adventures, two childhood friends idle and party-goer, who are trying to escape the Second World War.

Tango on the Balcony // 19min // Drama // 2016 // US & Cyprus

Writer/Director: Minos Papas

Johnny, an Iraq war veteran who wrestles with post traumatic stress and the transition to civilian life, is tormented by an incessant hyper vigilance and insomnia and the lingering questions of his past actions in combat.

Gloriana // 9min // Drama // 2015 //  US

Director: Stefany Mathias

The US Army’s first female Ranger platoon leader is unfairly tried for a failed combat mission.

She Will Be Loved // 30min // Drama // 2017 // USA

Writer/Director: Chadwick Pelletier

A female CIA Officer is on an overseas mission when her convoy is struck by an IED, and she is medevaced as the loan survivor.

The Sandbox // 47min // Drama // 2016 // USA

Writer/Director: Jennifer Kramer

A young boy struggles to reconnect with his dad who returns from Iraq still haunted by his tour of duty.

The Darkest Hour // 125min // Drama // 2017 // UK

Director: Joe Wright
Writer: Anthony McCarten

During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler or fight on against incredible odds.

Anrath // 20min // Drama // 2015 // Germany

Writer/Director/Producer: Gregor Hoeppner

Nazi Germany, October 1944. A 60-year-old Jewish woman, from the village of Anrath in the Lower Rhine Region, is being deported. She rides crossbar on the bike of an elderly village policeman.

No Man’s Land // 4min // Animation // 2014 // Finland

Director: Vilvi Rae

A famous story from the trenches of the First World War, when British and German soldiers made a brief truce for Christmas Day.

Winged Warriors // 13min // Drama // 2014 // United Kingdom

Writer/Director: Evy Barry

A story of war, fear, courage and leadership from the First World War front line. When the survival of the last of a platoon of soldiers who reach the enemy trenches depends on their messenger pigeons.

Butchery // 6min  // Animation // 2014 // France

Director: Bernard Capitaine (aka Iono Allen)

World War I: 9 million dead, 8 million disabled. A short symbolic vision of this war, the first massive and technologic one, through real letters from a French soldier, German soldier, and English nurse.

The Rat’s Dilemma // 11min // Sci-Fi // 2014 // Israel

Writer/Director: Naor Meningher

In the Holocaust, a gifted Jewish physicist named Rudolph is forced to build a teleporter for the Nazis. Rudolph keeps telling his Nazi supervisor, Heinz, that the machine doesn’t work yet, but Heinz suspects Rudolph is hiding something.

The White Feather // 22min // Drama // 2014 // Australia

Writer/Director: Laurence de B Anderson

Albert Ellis says we shouldn’t fight Britain’s wars. Then he gets a white feather.

Desertion // 9min // Drama // 2015 // United Kingdom

Writer/Director: Ben Reid

Rob, a young soldier wearing a war-torn uniform, walks towards an imposing tower block. He calls the intercom at the entrance, gripping a red box in his hand. As a woman answers, Rob nervously manages the most muted of greetings.